Peptalk: Peptides Unpacked

#6 Losing 55 Pounds, Gaining Everything: GLP-1s Done Right with Karli Sine

• Dr. Kylie Burton & Jessica Briecke • Season 1 • Episode 6

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Six million people are on GLP-1s. But how many are actually using them right?

In this episode, we sit down with Karli Sine—a real person with a real story—who lost 55 pounds while gaining so much more: confidence, energy, and a completely transformed relationship with her body and health.

Karli opens up about her journey with PCOS, insulin resistance, and the frustration of trying everything before finding a protocol that actually worked. This isn't a quick-fix story. It's about rebuilding metabolism, protecting muscle, and creating sustainable habits that make results last.

What We Cover:

  • How Karli used GLP-1s as a tool, not a crutch—and what that actually means
  • The protein-first strategy that protected her muscle while fat melted off
  • Why microdosing can smooth out side effects and create a gentler journey
  • The myth of salads as "safe food" and the simple rule that changed everything: make every bite count
  • Hydration, electrolytes, mineral repletion, and gut/liver support during weight loss
  • Hair shedding and skin changes during rapid fat loss—plus how GHK-Cu can help restore hair and skin quality
  • Using BPC-157 for joint comfort and recovery as movement becomes easier and more frequent
  • Semaglutide vs. tirzepatide: what the real difference feels like in your body
  • Maintenance microdoses: keeping appetite calm without flattening your energy
  • The BIG shift: playing harder with her kids, feeling good in her clothes, and silencing the inner critic
  • Emerging research on GLP-1s and neuroinflammation, including potential support in conditions like Parkinson's

For Listeners Looking at Losing Weight with GLP-1s: You'll walk away with practical steps to steady blood sugar, protect lean mass, and build a plan you can actually stick with.

This episode is for anyone ready to use peptides intelligently—with intention, support, and a long-term vision for their health.

To connect with Karli, visit her Instagram @karli.sine or on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@KarliSine

Your Turn: What's the one habit from this episode you'll start today? Share this podcast episode on your socials, leave us a review and let us know—we are honored to have you join us.

Want to connect more with the hosts? We'd love it! Connect with Jess at B2BwithJess.com or on Instagram @JessB_LMT_NC. Connect with Dr. Kylie at her other podcast Unshakeable Brain where new episodes are posted weekly.

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Legal Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult with a qualified healthcare provider before starting any new health protocol. Dr. Kylie Burton and Jessica Briecke are affiliates and may receive compensation for referrals. Individual results may vary.

You have the science. You have the tools. Now it's time to take the next step.

This is PepTalk: Peptides Unpacked—science made simple, results made real.

SPEAKER_03:

Here's a wild stat for ya. More than six million Americans are now using GLP1 medications. Yet less than ten percent actually understand how these peptides work beyond the scale. This is Pep Talk, Peptides Unpacked, where we bring clarity to the most exciting tools and modern health and make them understandable for real people.

SPEAKER_00:

Exactly. And that's what today's story is about. We're talking with Carly Sine, who's down 55 pounds. But what's even more powerful is how she did it with intention, patience, and a focus on root cause healing.

SPEAKER_03:

This isn't a crash diet success story. It's about rebuilding metabolism, balancing hormones, and using GLP1 peptides as a tool, not a shortcut.

SPEAKER_00:

Carly's journey has really proved that when you pair the right peptides with the right foundations, gut, liver, minerals, movement, mindset, your body doesn't just change, it remembers how to function again.

SPEAKER_03:

So let's jump into her story and unpack what really happens when you do GLP1s the right way. Welcome, Car Carly.

SPEAKER_01:

Hi Carly.

SPEAKER_03:

So I'm Dr. Kylie. You just heard from Jessica Brickie as well. And our special guest today is Carly Sine. And she's been using peptides for what, two and a half years? Yeah, two and a half years. Two and a half years. So Carly, take us back to the moment that you overcame the fear and said yes to these things. Because really two and a half years ago, they weren't mainstream like they are now.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I think when I really first heard of it in general, it was like connected to the Kardashians. People were calling it like the Kardashian drug. And I didn't know, even really know what that meant. But at the time I had a friend who had mentioned semaglutide to me. And I was completely clueless, but I'm a big researcher. So I started to do some digging and I was like, oh wow, like this sounds like it could really help me because I have PCOS and insulin resistance. And when I saw the benefits that it had for all of these people who also had PCOS and insulin resistance, I was like, oh my gosh, maybe it's not just about weight loss, but I was going into it specifically for losing weight because I had heard that it had helped with that. So I was very skeptical. And it was actually really hard to get at the time. Like I got my prescription from my primary care physician at the time, and he was like, I've never prescribed this. I don't even know what to tell you. Like he just said, good luck, kind of. Didn't really give me any guidance. And I felt very like alone in my decision, but I knew I wanted to do it just from my research. And it took me about three months to even get the prescription in my hand because I couldn't find anyone. I couldn't find anyone. To fulfill it. Yeah, to fulfill it. So, anyways, once I started, it was like amazing how almost instantly it was starting to help me.

SPEAKER_00:

Do you think when you're gonna address no? I'm sorry, Kylie, Kylie. I'm gonna confuse you two, by the way, Carly and Kylie. So yeah, we're gonna apologize in the room. I will I will probably do that frequently. Um, but a lot of women that have PCOS do not know the connection with their blood sugar. So did you know at the time even that you had insulin resistance, or is that something that you have come to learn along this journey?

SPEAKER_01:

It was actually around that time when I started doing the digging that I was like, oh wow, I knew I did know that PCOS was like the root cause was in something to do with insulin. I just didn't understand it. But when I was reading about the medication and these peptides, I was like, wow, I think that this might connect the two together and like help them both. And so I hadn't, I obviously didn't know the the depths of it now. But when I first started, I just was excited. Like I just was more so like hopefully this works. And and honestly, when I when I started, I I actually had no I really didn't have any like I'll probably be that person that it doesn't work for, and you know, that's how every single diet, that's how every single prescription has been for me. Like nothing had ever worked until this. And even just my first week, I was a really quick responder. It clicked so fast for me.

SPEAKER_00:

That's amazing, and also what we know now versus what we knew two and a half years ago about how people are responding and depressing and all that. I mean, people will learn as they listen to our podcast, I'm a big microdose person. But two and a half years ago, that that wasn't being talked about at not even a little bit. So, how did you, with the doctor who kind of released you, come to the idea of what your dose was even going to be? And then did you suffer from the side effects that so many suffer from?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, so he had just prescribed me the regular dosing that everyone gets prescribed, the normal program, if you want to call it that. And I I followed it and I did have side effects. I will say that I didn't have any guidance at all on diet and like nutrition at all. I had no guidance on that, pairing it with these peptides. And I had to figure that part out for myself. And I think that was the hardest part. Um, but yeah, when I started, it was it was pretty rough for the first little bit because I was still in my old habits and in my old way of eating, more so um out of just it is a habit. Like I just was used to finishing an entire plate and I was just used to pushing through, like, oh, I started to feel full on these prescription on this peptide. And I was like, I don't think I'm actually full because I can eat an entire plate of food and I would just keep trying to eat. Like I was just in such an old way of mindset eating that it took me a while to be like, wow, these are like actually helping me kind of shift my ways into becoming like a normal person, if you want to say it like that.

SPEAKER_00:

I like quieted those that that that brain signaling, like all of a sudden you like the plate of food that you were eating is no longer what you need.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and I had never had that before. I had never had that like turnoff. Like I could just eat and eat, and then I would eventually be like, I guess I should stop eating now. Like I never had this, like, you know, you're full. Like I never had that. And I it was really wild to finally shift into this place where I was like, okay, I need to stop eating because I'm starting to feel sick. Like if I take too many, two bites, you know, one too many bites, I feel yucky. And then I started connecting that like I was way underhydrated. So a lot of my side effects all came down to my nutrition and how I was eating. It wasn't, I truly don't believe it, it was that dose because I started on a micro dose. It was that I wasn't working with the tool. Sure. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

But you didn't, nobody knew how to or no one knew. I didn't know.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And I would say, so I'm gonna just tell you a little story about something that happened here in my office. So about that same time, I had um one of my clients come into my office and she too was being prescribed. Actually, she was getting it through a Medi-Spa because it was so hard to get back then that there was limited availability, and she was getting it through a MetaSpa, she was paying like a thousand dollars a month, some like crazy amount. But again, she was desperate, like nothing had ever worked, and whatever. Now, she was on my treatment table every three weeks. I for years, I knew her body, like the back of my hand. And we had a gap where she didn't come in for about eight weeks, and suddenly she came in. And when I tell you, I put my hand into her body and it felt like jello, it's no exaggeration. There was no tone. She was doing CrossFit three times a week, she was doing Pilates four times a week, and yet her body just lost all tone, all everywhere. Now, normally, even with somebody that comes into my office, if they're overweight or they're obese, I can find the big muscles, I can find your bicep, I can find your hamstring. None of that was detectable, and it scared me because this was the first experience I'd had with somebody that was using the peptides in this way. And she had at that point lost a significant amount of weight rapidly. I sent her back to her doctor and I said, We need to figure out what's happening here because I'm nervous. And the doctor poo-pooed it. You're not wasting muscles, nothing's happening, everything's fine. That's just a rumor people are starting to talk about. Well, it wasn't a rumor, it was really happening, and I was scared about like her heart, which is a muscle. Fast forward now to two and a half years, we understood she changed nothing in her life, right? She wasn't being guided either. She changed, she was still like the food she was eating was a donut for breakfast and a pizza for dinner. So there was no change, and there was no protein going into that body whatsoever. Now she's great, she's everything now is wonderful. But at the time, and back at your time, there was nothing for people to be supported well and have a good outcome. But the wins on the scale, they feel good.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, they feel really good. And I will say it was really a big deep dive just for me personally to learn about the how important the protein side of it was. Because what I was running into is that I would sit down in front of my food, and probably similar to the this woman who she was like you were saying, she was still eating a donut for breakfast, kind of a thing, where I was used to eating like my carbs first and maybe like my sides first, or you know, whatever that was. And I very quickly learned that I had to eat my protein first because of how fast I would get full. And so I always tell everyone who I coach and who I speak with, I'm always saying, make every bite count. You only you now are in this new place of shifting, and your, your, you know, your stomach is only gonna be holding so much food now, and you're holding it longer, and you want to make sure that it's the best in there. You know, it's like you don't want to be having a donut sit in your body for hours. No nutritional value whatsoever there. None. And so I always say, make every bite count that like you're getting that protein first so that you can make sure that this is gonna be working with your body, and then you are retaining that muscle and you're not losing that, and you're able to, you know, you may be losing the fat, but you're also helping your nutrition. But that's such a mind shift, that's where it is.

SPEAKER_03:

It's it's retraining your body, which is why this is a tool. Yeah, it's a mind shift, but it's also a generational shift because as you think about like how many times are those parents, and I know Carla, you have a two-year-old, same with me. So you what did you start these right after you had a baby? Yeah, yeah. Okay, so just postpartum. And I think you know, how many times do us parents say, Oh, you need to clean your plates? You're not done yet, you still have food on your plate.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Where I I'm aware of this, and so as a mom, I've always said, Is your tummy happy? To my kids. And I've noticed like even the neighbors and family, they're just like, you have to eat everything that's on your plate. And in my mind, that's setting us up to realize as adults, we have to eat everything on our plate.

SPEAKER_01:

It's so true. I I felt really guilty for a while because I wouldn't eat everything on my plate and I was throwing food away. And the, you know, it was a really weird thing to start doing. I used to look at my friends who would like say, Oh, I'm so full, and they'd have like this whole thing on their plate, and I'd be like, There's no way. Like, I actually thought that they were lying. Like, I thought that they were just like putting on like a front to like, I'm not gonna eat in front of people. Like, I thought it was so weird, and it's so crazy how like the connection of food was like it was so unhealthy, and it was a generational thing. Like, we were always told to finish our food, always. And I do say that to my kids sometimes, and so I love that. Like keeping you can switch, is your tummy happy?

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, and with my kids, like especially coming off the holiday season, it's like, okay, we have to have a lot of healthy food and a little bit of junky food. And I have a five-year-old who loves her carbohydrates and loves her sweets, and I always say to her, Hallie, did you eat healthy food first? Okay, mom. Like, like she just knows, like, it's okay to have a donut here and there, um, but it's not okay to eat it consistently every single day. And one of the fast tricks that I've learned to understand your metabolism, where it's at with your insulin, is if you can take like a bite of a Hershey's candy bar and be done with one bite. Can you take a bite of a donut and be done? Or do you have to finish the whole thing? For me, I've always just been able to take a bite. I was one of those kids where I had my Halloween candy in the drawer, still in the next Halloween. It was just there. I never it was never appealing to me. I could eat a bite of it and call it good. And so I think that's a good judgment on where your insulin and where your metabolic health is. Is can you just take a bite and call it good? And if you can't, that's not it's not against you. It's that your body needs some assistance. Right. The signaling's off.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Carly, when you lost or started losing your weight, um, did you lose it quickly? Like, what was your time frame for that?

SPEAKER_01:

I did lose mine quickly, and it it's so crazy even looking back after helping so many people on their journey now. It's it's actually really crazy how fast I lost my weight. Um, I ended up losing my full 55 pounds in about five months. Whoa. It was very fast. And like, I think even people around me were like, Are you are you okay? Sure.

SPEAKER_03:

But like in turn, especially postpartum.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and post and I had never, even before my kids, I will say, I've never been a small person. I've always struggled with my weight, my PCOS. It's always been a struggle in my life. But um, yeah, when I started losing my weight, it was kind of like, oh no, like Carly's withering away. It was like this fear. Like people were like, Are you okay? But on my end of it, I was like, I have never in my life felt so good. And it was so crazy. I think one of the this was honestly one of the craziest things for me was that as my weight was coming off, which this is gonna sound like, well, duh, obviously you felt like this, but I'd never experienced it. Is that as my weight was coming off, it was so much easier to work out that I actually wanted to work out. And so when people, when I used to work out prior, and you know, someone would be like, I'd be following a program and I'd be watching this person, I'm like, how on earth are they even doing that? Like, I don't even get how they can do, you know, 30 reps of that when I can barely even do eight. Like I just didn't, I couldn't fathom it. But it's like I was finally at this point where the weight was off of me, like the heaviness, and I was finally able to like focus on building muscle and toning up, and I could actually physically move my body, like it was easier. And so I think that was one of the best parts of even though it came off quickly, but I quickly was like, wow, I want to like gain muscle. I can move my body easier, my joints felt good. And that was one of the coolest parts. But I know that it's not like that for everyone. I know that a lot of people don't even start to see weight loss with the with the weight loss program and going up in dose. Some don't even see any change until month four. And that's a that's a pretty high dose. And then they're like, wow, I'm finally seeing a change. But there's a lot of factors that go into that too, because some people, even on the weight loss dose, they're not drinking hardly any water. You won't even have any success at all in weight loss or with this as a tool at all if you're not drinking water. And so when people are like, yeah, I still drink like only soda in the day, I'm like, what are you doing? You just have this, you're using this tool and you're just like leveling it out. It's not even able to help you when you're not drinking water and eating protein. And so then usually some of those shifts will help people lose quicker, but I was like dedicated. I drank so much water. I only ate like I ate so much protein in my days. Like I was super, super dedicated. I don't know if I can like contribute that to like how fast I lost it, but I did, I was a quick responder. And and it's okay, some people don't lose it quick that fast, but it will still work for people.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, that's the that's also the magic of all this. Like, this is a very individualized journey for people. Because what I what I tell people in my office too is I could have a husband and wife come in, both of them are sitting there in front of me with type 2 diabetes, right? Or will or or maybe they're just insulin resistant, they haven't officially hit that type 2 diagnosis. And he might be 6'5, 240 pounds, and she is 6'4, 140 pounds, right? And yet their dosing would be the same, which is wild to me because uh how does that mathematically even make sense, right? You're talking about completely different body types, but I love that we're in a position now that people are starting to pay attention, that these journeys can be so much more individualized and understand that that weight loss is going to be until you find what it is that your body needs, because it isn't the same as everybody else's um to be patient with it and understand this this does these these will support you, these tools are incredible, but the foundational work has to be a part of it. But it doesn't it doesn't happen instantly because there's so many um mindset shifts that have to occur during this. What about things like um people are really afraid of it?

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, let's let's just share a tip on how we can drink more water starting today. I'll share my tip. Okay, I don't I'm terrible at it. My husband will have a gallon of water plus a day. He's a former bodybuilder, he knows how to do these things, but I have to have a water bottle on my desk if I don't see it out of sight, out of mind. And I'll get to the end of my workday and it's like, gosh dang it, I only had 32 ounces today because that was all my water bottle was. Or lately it's like, I don't think I had anything. So for me, I need two things to drink more water. I need one, the water bottle to be full. I know that sounds pathetic, but I go through so many water bottles because I just don't take half a minute and fill them up in the morning. So if I'm gonna drink more water, I might as well just buy a water bottle that's already full. And number two is a stick on my desk. So, what's helped you guys drink more water? Carly, you want to answer that?

SPEAKER_00:

I'll go out yes.

SPEAKER_01:

Go ahead. Yeah, um, I hate water. I've never enjoyed drinking water, I've always had a really hard time with it. And I'm that wife where my husband's constantly like, Have you had any water today? Like my whole life, it's been like that. And so when I started this and I knew how much water I had to drink, and I had met an obesity um practitioner, she was like a specialist in obesity and she helped people on these. I asked her, I said, tell me how much water I need in a day. She said, a minimum of 60 ounces, a minimum if you're on these peptides. And I was like flailing. I'm like, that's so much water. And then I ended up getting to this point where I was able to drink like 80 plus in a day. And the only thing that gave me life were those packets that could give me some kind of electrolyte, some kind of flavor. The flavor. Just the flavor. And like I agree, I had like a really cute mug, and like people are like, it helps me drink. I don't, it wasn't that. I just am like a flavor person, and so just having like any kind of electrolyte added in there is what kept me going, and it's how I can drink as much water as I drink now.

SPEAKER_00:

What's your favorite one? Me for me, it's a vessel. For me, it's like like this right here is sparkly and a glass straw because it's a mouthfeel for me, also. So I could have this sitting on my desk and a glass of water sitting on my desk, and I will always go to this for whatever reason. I just don't enjoy as much drinking out of a glass. The more I drink, the more I crave, though. And I think a lot of people will find that too. If when you are in a good rhythm, a lot of times your body's gonna say, Hey, we're missing this, and it's gonna give you those signals. But for me, it's definitely about that. But also, I do, I'm a great water drinker. So this is it's been years since I've been a poor water drinker. So it's hard for me to go back to that and remember. But working with people, I think to your point, electrolytes are a big one and a good quality because there's a lot of garbage out there, a good quality one, but it doesn't have to be one that's like blasting you with a ton of electrolytes all day. Just even a low, you know, a low amount electrolyte is good enough to flavor. Um, even putting some citrus in it, like dropping in some lemon, some lime, a combination. Sometimes I get fancy and I'll put stuff in my water. Um, and other things that we drink will count towards our water intake too, and certain things won't. For example, coffee is dehydrating. Don't have a problem with people that drink coffee, but if you think that that, because it's made with water, is counting towards your water intake, not really. But other things will count. Like there are some, um, you know, like like this is a supplement drink that I have, right? This is here, this has supplements in it. Um, that counts towards my water intake as well. So for me, it's of mouthfeel and having the right thing that fits in my hand, it feels good in my mouth and flavoring sometimes, but I'm just in a rhythm with it for me. So that's a little harder for me to answer.

SPEAKER_01:

I think that's good that you're in that.

SPEAKER_03:

I have my filled up smart water sitting over there, still in their package. I'm like, dang, I need to get those out because I haven't drank anything yet this morning. Because the more we talk about, the more we thirst you have to do it. And I'm I'm not one to eat much either. So it's like we're going on 10:30 in the morning, I haven't had a single thing. So gosh, cut. Kylie, that's terrible. I know. I call it intermittent fasting, okay?

unknown:

Okay.

SPEAKER_03:

But here's the deal. I like if I were to go on a diet, it's gonna be carnivore. I love meat. It's like for dinner, I'll have a like I have a giant dinner usually, and it's full of meat. A lot of times we'll have like steak and onions. That's like our go-to. In fact, it's elk steak and onions, and I I could just eat it and eat it and eat it. Uh, but it's that solid food that Carly was talking about, those proteins, where I think a lot of us, especially us women, are like, oh, you need to eat salads and you need to have a soup. And it's like, oh no, that's not gonna be nutritious.

SPEAKER_00:

Can we talk about salads for just a minute? That's literally the like everybody thinks, and I I'm much older than you guys. Um, so for sure, my generation. So we were told restriction, really key. Salads are gonna be really important because they're gonna give you fiber. No, first of all, you're getting very little fiber from your salad, unless you're putting like chickpeas in it and you have a very colorful salad, you are not getting that much fiber from your salad.

SPEAKER_03:

So lettuce doesn't count.

SPEAKER_00:

It does not count. Second, we're putting so much bulk in it with all of those non beneficial vegetables, right? They are not not beneficial, but largely they're not. Like we're putting a little bit of carrot and a little bit of tomato. Okay, great. There's some antioxidants in there, but the quantity is so small comparatively. So by the time we add in our protein layer, we're just measuring out this small little bit of chicken or shrimp or whatever we're putting on our salad. And it's a garbage meal. It's great, it tastes delicious. I love a good salad, but my salads are not the typical salad. They are loaded with protein first, a small amount of greens that are on the bed. And I'm making my salad dressing, which that's a whole nother discussion, right? But salads, ditch the salads, guys, because they are not really your friend. They're not that nourishing. Think about a salad as protein first.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, they're making every bite count. That's been like my little tagline has been make every bite count. And it helps people when they're literally about to take a bite, you're like, wow, I have no protein in this bite. Like I could be a few bites away from feeling full. Like you want to make sure that's that's in there. It's so important. And yes, salads are like, you're like, oh, it's so healthy. And then you're like, I'm hungry, and I didn't really get that much nutrition from it. Like, I get the idea behind it, but I've constantly I'm always saying, like, just get a chicken breast or go get something that's a little bit hardier so that you're not later in the day, you're not like, wow, I feel so junky. It's because your salad didn't it didn't hold you up.

SPEAKER_00:

It didn't, I I I know. And listen, we can build a healthy salad. So I'm not poo-pooing it completely. We can build a healthy salad. We just need to learn how to do that. Let me go back to your weight loss for those second, if you don't mind. Um when you lose a lot of weight that quickly, it can be considered like a stress on the body, right? That's that's there's like nutritional things that are happening or or pauses that are going to happen with your body prioritizing and wants to become protective. And in that kind of stress response, so we'll see it happen in, you know, when we're in crisis, like maybe there's a family crisis or something like that, but losing weight quickly is also a stressor. How did you do with like how was your skin health and how about your hair? Because people talk about that, they're scared about that.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, this is like a huge topic of conversation. And I actually feel like it's a big reason people don't even start it, is because they're like, I already have thin, fine hair. I have no desire to lose any more of it, you know, like that's where the conversation starts for a lot of people I talk to. And for me, I've always had really thick hair, but I will tell you, I had no education. I had no education on what these were gonna uh how these work and what they do. Yeah, well, yeah, and I just had no information that like that was gonna even be a part of my journey. But on top of that, I had just had a baby, um, like three months, three and a half months before. And so as I had like hair loss, I was like, wow, like I haven't had this much postpartum hair loss out of all four of my kids, like until my last. Like, this is so crazy. So I like would have hair shedding and it was like feeling really weird, but then people were like, It's the it's the peptide that you're on. And I was like, Oh, and then I started digging into that, and I'm actually a hairstylist, and so I've done hair before I'm glad I asked. You didn't do that, yeah. I'm a hairstylist. I did hair for 15 years, and so it was really strange, but strange, but I kept thinking, like, my hair cycle just must be off. And like I just was trying to figure it out, and then when I did connect it to the peptide, I remember, I remember thinking, I know that this isn't gonna last forever, but it it was hard for a minute, like being like, wow, I am losing some hair, and then it stopped once I hit my goal weight, and once I had kind of figured that out and I was gonna wean back down, I got to my goal weight and I got on a microdose and it just completely stopped shedding. I had no more shedding happening, and it was kind of like I could tell that I was in like a recovery point with my hair, and I started just taking neutrophil and vitamins and tons of water again, and my hair started to grow back. Um, I still even have like little, like I'm like, oh, I still have little babies growing back. But what's crazy is that I I would go through all of that again. I would go through that phase of it if if I still got to the way I feel now, like a hundred times over, because you can even lose hair. You you mentioned stress, you can lose hair. I lost hair when I was getting married, like planning my wedding. I was like, my hair was like coming out. Like it's just such a stressful time. And that can happen with anything. Even I would have clients sit in my chair and I could see on their hair a line, like it would be like almost fuzzy, and or like maybe even closer to their root. And I would be like, Did you go through a really stressful time? And they'd be like, Oh, yeah, a couple months ago, you know, I someone passed away in my family and I was planning the funeral and whatever. I can literally see the stress line of where they were experiencing that in their hair, and and sometimes even like color and chemicals, it all everything is affected. Our whole body is affected by a stress. And I don't want to say that our body's going through this like majorly stressful thing when we're on these peptides, but it's such a big shift that our hair takes, you know, the back seat for just a minute, and we have some hair shedding, and then now it's it's been growing back, and I've just been nurturing it. I actually take another peptide called GHK. That's an amazing, amazing peptide for skincare and hair growth. It's it's amazing.

SPEAKER_00:

Is that a daily is that a the that peptide? Do you take that daily? Three times a week. Three times a week. Um, I know the the peptides, I I could talk about them all day long because I think in my career, this is probably one of the most excited I have ever been to have something that's going to help people, just exactly how you described it. People that are out there struggling every day, thinking I'm never, they've tried every diet. And listen, I have been through that myself. You've tried every diet under the sun, um, you've seen all the specialists, all the things, and things will work temporarily, but in the long term, they don't necessarily always stick or they you think and you start thinking something's wrong with you. So for me as a nutritionist, to have these tools there to help people not feel so bad about themselves, to understand that metabolically they're busted. They're not right. There's that word. You love it when I use that. Metabolically busted. But when they are, um, and you start to realize something's just missing, or my body's just not listening anymore, and there's something that can help me, and there's nothing wrong with me, this changes everything. I'm so excited about that. So, skin, hair, uh, skin health and hair health, uh, how we're seeing this is another side note. Uh, shoulder tears, knee injuries, all these things in my 30-something years as a as a massage therapist, they didn't exist 30-something years ago. Not very often. Usually it was a big traumatic thing that would cause it. Fast forward to now, you are seeing, you probably can't cast a net and catch 20 people in it that have a shoulder tear, right? Like it's so common. And we could dive into why I think that that is all happening, but to have tools out there like BPC 157 that can help people not experience that can recover better, it's absolutely incredible.

SPEAKER_01:

It is, it's incredible. BPC 157 is like so amazing. It is like one of the most powerful, I think, life-changing, not just for weight loss, but just for people who like I haven't been able to like walk in so for so long comfortably, and they're able to walk. Like, that's amazing. It's so amazing. And I will go back to the skin comment that you said, excuse me. Um, my skin when I did my um when I was on my higher doses and everything, I I felt like I was like coming out of this shell of like my old self and like my face was like clearing up and I felt like a whole new person. So my skin actually, maybe it was because I actually started drinking water. Who knows? Um, but my skin was like a completely different thing. Like I felt amazing. Um, it was just really my hair, which is common. But yeah, I would say my skin was great.

SPEAKER_03:

I want to touch on not just the physical, but the mental and the confident side. And what has changed in your life with your relationship with your kids, with your spouse. Um, I think that's a hidden benefit that doesn't get talked about because it's it's cool to lose weight, but it's even cooler to have the confidence and to be able to rock the relationships that you live that you have because of the confidence. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

My confidence like was it bloomed the day I started this GLP one. I um I will say I always liked to say or think or believe that I was pretty confident before. And I I've always been very outgoing, I've always had no problem like just feeling myself, you know, feeling like myself. But this literally helped me blossom into a completely different, confident person. And I love that you said with my kids, because I can like run around and play with them now without even just being winded, like actually want to. And I think that that has been a really cool experience where like we can just go, we have a park down the street from our house, and like we'll all just run to the park.

SPEAKER_03:

And it's just and you guys, when she says run to the park, she's running at 5,000 feet elevation because we both live in Utah and we know that it's not just a sea level run to the park, it's yeah, it's true, it might not be at 10,000 feet in the mountains, but we're still, you know, a good 4,500 there in Salt Lake.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, it's so true. And it is it, but it is one of those things where you don't think that that's gonna be affected. I didn't really think that my like relationship with my kids was gonna be affected. I started to feel my relationship with my husband change because I was feeling so much more confident in myself. And I was like, I've always thought that I didn't match him. He's like a big, strong bodybuilder. Like he's just husbands are the same. Yeah. He's just fit, big, tall, like handsome. It's like they can't even do anything wrong. Yes. That's my husband, 100%. And then I'm over here, like, I don't even match him. Like, I don't even feel like I would always think, and this is sad, but I mean, we I would have thoughts in my head of just like, why is he with me? Like, I don't know, he could find someone better. Like, I just was so hard on myself. And I finally got to this point when I was like, oh my gosh, like I actually am confident in myself. I feel so good to be with him. Not that that's not that that's like a major, you know, thing, but I just feel though. I mean, it is, yeah. And even just like our intimate life, like everything started to improve because my confidence was improving, and like I stopped staring at myself in the mirror, just talking so bad to myself. Oh, that makes me emotional. Wow, I'm sorry. I didn't, I was not kind to myself, and I think a lot of us are like that, you know. We stand in front of the mirror. We're all crying down. We all stand, we all stand in front of the mirror and we just nitpick and we just tear ourselves down. And I actually remember my husband had said to me at one point, he said, You don't talk bad about yourself anymore. Because I was like feeling my my health improve and I felt so good in my body. And so, yeah, like I mean, the emotional and physical side of it, like watching my body change was fun and feeling the change was fun. But yeah, it totally improved relationships and my confidence skyrocketed. I I literally look back and I I'm like, who is that? Like, who is that person? Because I just I feel like I'm a completely different person now in a good way.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I mean, you probably look back at some of those pictures, and even though you had happy moments, you realize that underneath that was such an unhappy person.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, definitely. And like times when like I would look at a photo, uh, the amount of photos I've deleted. I wish I had all of the deleted photos, but uh the times I'd like to look at a photo and just delete it, it's like I'm just deleting a memory because of the way I looked and like how I felt in the moment. Like, that's wild that I'm deleting memories.

SPEAKER_00:

Or hiding in a photo, right? How many people let everybody get set up and then hide yourself where you were gonna be positioned?

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, you're just like a head because you're like, I don't want anyone to see my body. It's like it's uh it is a very different feeling to look at a photo and be like, whoa, I I like that. Like I had never felt that way.

SPEAKER_03:

And so we use the term feel sexy, because I know when I when I was stalking your Instagram, you make a big deal of like, it's okay to feel sexy, 100%.

SPEAKER_01:

100%. And and I think a big part of that too was even just a huge change in my wardrobe. I I never wore tight clothing, I only wore sweatshirts, I only wore baggy giant t-shirts. Where once I lost the weight, I actually didn't even know what my style was. I was like, who am I? I don't even know what I like anymore, I don't even know how to dress this body. I felt very confused. And then it got to this point where I was just like, I feel really good, and I think I can wear a tight shirt now. And then I would be like, oh my gosh, I feel really hot. Like I think that that's okay to feel that way. And like it's we go to a resort. I have a you know, a bikini I want to wear. Like, yes, oh my gosh, like wearing bikinis, everything. Like it just was such every aspect of my life changed, every single aspect, but it all changed for the better. And it it is truly like when people sit and say like it's life-changing, it really is. Awesome.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, I've loved talking to you. I want to have one more question about where you were getting your peptides in the beginning from your prescription from a pharmaceutical physician, it shifted. Yeah. Where are you getting them from now?

SPEAKER_01:

So I had originally got them from my primary care doctor, and as I said before, he was completely unaware of how these worked. He, I was his first, you know, prescription he had given out of this. I had even called and asked for help, and he just it's sad, but and I was really upset, but he just was like, I don't have any answers for you, and he just apologized. And I remember leaving, like getting off the phone that day, and I was like, wow, that is like the most disheartening feeling to like not get answers from you know the doctor that you're getting your prescription fund from. And so I ended up looking online, and there's like a million different options online, but I now get mine from LEMD, and it has been one of the best experiences. I have loved using them, it's just an online health assessment, and it's all it's just such an easy process to fill out. They actually today released a whole new customization for your peptides. So you can actually, um, a lot of prescriptions, you can will have B12 added in to the compound or whatever, and that's how they had how I've always had mine is with B12 added in. But now they give you the option to change the B12 to be L-carnitine, or you can have glycine added in so that if someone doesn't want B12, they don't have to have it. So I actually just placed my new order today with L-carnitine, and I'm so excited. And I went through the whole assessment and it's just very easy. It's just all of your medical history, and then they have you snap a picture of your body to show them, you know, where you're at and how long you've been on it. Um, and then once you're sent in for approval, that's it. They ship it to your house. And then it's really nice too because you have a chat with your doctor, your provider, in the backpatient portal, so that if like if I have any questions, I can just go jump into the chat and like ask any questions that I have.

SPEAKER_03:

Um, it's very like this secret healthcare team that knows about the peptides.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, and that's like from every angle. Yes, and that's what I was missing in the beginning of my journey is that like I had questions and I he just he was a busy doctor. Like he was just like, I don't know. And so this was this is so much better because you can go in and chat and ask the questions and they'll have the answers. But yeah, they're they're an amazing company. Amazing.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, um, one of mine and Jess's missions was I was seeing Jess post, yeah, she's losing some weight with the smile and the vibrancy. And I texted her, I said, Girl, what are you doing? She's like, peptides. Teach me more. I'm one of these functional medicine practitioners who knows peptides exist, but I don't really know. Like, I had to look up what the heck a peptide even was. You know, it's between it's a combination of amino acids, which we'll get to in a different episode. Um, but I feel as part of our mission here is to not just have the general public understand what a peptide is and the powerful effects that it has on the body, but also the practitioners helping them understand because patients like you are asking. And if we can have some answers, that's like why Jess and I are here is to provide some answers and to provide a safe place where people can go get these things and also, like you mentioned, have that support in the background. Yes. So, all right, Kylie, Carly. Any own baby now, I don't feel so bad.

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SPEAKER_03:

Um, my babysitter is Carly too. And I actually, when I was texting her that you this morning, I texted her first. I'm like, oh wait, shoot, wrong Carly. And it's still the exact same. Um last little like, if you're thinking about it, what helped you what or what helped the listener jump on board?

SPEAKER_01:

That's a really good question. I think a lot of people get in their heads about all the side effects. And I think the one thing that really helps people is that the side effects don't last your entire journey. Um, I think there's a misconception that someone's going to like be nauseous every single day of their entire journey the entire time. It's it's not like that. The the side effects that most people feel are just in the very beginning when you're adjusting to the medication and when you're adjusting your eating, when you're adjusting your water, and you're adjusting your working out. There's so many factors that go into it. And I I've worked with so many people who say, I'm scared, I'm scared, I'm scared, and then they do it, and then they're like, I feel so silly, like I don't know what I was scared of. Like I was totally able to manage that. Like, I'm capable, I'm a capable person to listen to my body. And then they just have this insanely life-changing experience. And so I think that's the one thing for people who might be like, I'm nervous, I don't know, I'm so scared of the side effects. Don't let that hold you back. That's such a small phase, and some people don't even have side effects. That's a big part, too. That's some not a lot of that is said.

SPEAKER_03:

So um just I feel like it's like pregnancy. You know, you go to get pregnant and you're like scared because like what I was deathly ill for my pregnancies. Where I just met with my cousin last night, she's on her 10th kid. I'm serious, in I don't know, 20 years. She just loves being pregnant, she has nothing, so it's something it's similar.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, everyone's starting at a metabolic, a different metabolic state. And a lot of people don't take that into consideration. They'll contact me on week one, and they're like, nothing's happening. And I'm like, yeah, like it's been one week. Like, you need to let this get in your system. Give it a minute. See you, see where you're at at month three. Once you're there, like, let's chat. And that's why, like, the place I get my prescription from at LEMD, they they do three-month increments so that you can check in and they're giving you time for it to actually work. And that's that's a big part of it. But then there's someone else like me, where at the end of week one, I had I had a huge change, and I was like, whoa, I I've lost six pounds. And so it's not going to be like that for everyone. Me and that girl, we started at different places, different diets, different workout routines. There's so many factors, but don't let the fear of judgment, because people judge, don't let the fear of judgment stop you, and don't let the fear of the side effects stop you, because in the end, you'll be buying some skin tight shirt because you've lost so much weight. They're gonna judge anyways, right? Yeah, everyone judges.

SPEAKER_03:

Do it anyways, yeah, no matter what. And you're what two years? You've kept this off for two years going strong? Yeah, two and a half years.

SPEAKER_01:

And I'm just on the micro micro now. Yeah, I take I take a microdose once a week. Yeah, see, that's all you need. Yeah, and I and I I will say I'm not on semaglutide. I lost all of my weight on semaglutide, and I wish so badly I would have taken triseptide, um, just because I've been on it now and I know how amazing it is. But at the time I couldn't afford triseptide, so I did semaglutide and um wow, life-changing. But then I switched, and this is when I was getting down to my microdose. And when I switched, I didn't realize I kind of always had like a little ping of nausea in my stomach on semaglutide. And and it was, it was like a oh, it's working. Like I can feel it, it's working. Like my stomach's kind of hurting, which is such a bad thing to think. But I just like knew that that was the semaglutide. Then I switched to trusepatite and I was like, doesn't work, doesn't work for me at all. But it was because I didn't feel that little nausea, that little ping of nausea constantly, and it was working, it works better. And so I wish I had done my whole journey on trusepatide, but both are amazing, and now I'm on just the 2.5 milligram microdose of trusepatide.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, your husband takes it too, right? Yeah, he does. Just not for weight life, he's doing it for mental brain support.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, he has um a condition, he has Parkinson's disease, and there's studies coming out. You guys and they're in their 30s. Yes, yeah. My husband's 35 and he was diagnosed at 33 with Parkinson's, and there are all these studies coming out, which was crazy because it was when I was on my weight loss journey about how these can help Parkinson's disease. And so then he was like, Wow, I'll do it. And he's like, if it helps the inflammation in my brain, why not? So he's just always been on a low dose of a GLP1, and they they're saying, and I'm sure so much more will come out in the future, but they're saying that that inflammation is just helping it progress not progress so that the Parkinson's is kind of staying stagnant.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, they're never gonna say that they're curing it. No, I'll never say that, but right we all know, yeah, there is potential for like Parkinson's runs tremendously in my family. My aunt was diagnosed when in her 30s as well. Um, and I just know that one of the side effects or one of the powerful effects of peptides is that brain health, that neuroprotective support. So I just wanted to throw that in there as well. Jess, anything else?

SPEAKER_00:

No, I think that's it. And uh I think we'll wrap it up because you know Carly's story reminds us that um the peptide wasn't the magic, it was it was the messaging in her body, right? It gave her body the nudge to heal while she did the other work to help support it.

SPEAKER_03:

Exactly. And that's what makes these conversations so powerful. Peptides can open the door, but it's the lifestyle, the mindset, and the foundations that keep it open.

SPEAKER_00:

Ugh, so good. Listen, if this story inspired you, make sure that you follow Pep Talk, Peptides Unpacked, wherever you listen to us. Um you can find me, Jessica Brickie. You can get me on my website, b2bwithess.com, or on my Instagram at Jess B underscore L-M T underscore N C.

SPEAKER_01:

Real quick, Carly, where can they find you? They can find me on Instagram. It's just my name, Carly.sign, and also on YouTube at CarlySign.

SPEAKER_03:

So K-A-R-L-I dot S-I-N-E. Yes, correct. I G and YouTube. Yep. You can find me at another podcast called Unshakable Brain, or go to my website at drkylieburton.com/slash peptides to learn more. Of course, at the end of this concluding, or at the end of this uh episode, you can we'd love for you to share with somebody else, especially if they're sitting on the border of should I do this or should I not do this? And uh maybe get a little bit of encouragement as well. So that's Carly. I'm Dr. Kylie, and that's thank you for having me. Thanks, Carly. Until next time.